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Essays 1861 - 1890

"I Had Seen Castles"

terrible sense of foreboding when Joe says that his father came home early from the university: "It was his face ... On any other ...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...

Streptococcus Pyogenes

type of bacterium that causes illness in newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly, and adults with other illnesses, such as dia...

Tsunami: The Physics and Possible Prevention

combat future threats is to study the phenomenon. NOAA and FEMA got together to create a possible scenario to examine the potentia...

Avian Influenza

high in addition to this there will also be an economic cost. In the US alone it is estimated a serous pandemic could be equal to ...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

The High Price of Gas in the Third Quarter of 2006

out that while oil prices are rising, the oil companies are profiting a great deal (Noe, 2006). An article appearing on the ABC N...

Fathers: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

Peer Rejection

facing peer rejection suffer negative emotional impacts and include feelings of anxiety and loneliness (Reijntjes et al, 2006, Mou...

Pollution in China

dioxide and soot, both of which are caused that coal combustion. This air pollution creates acid rain, which falls on about 30% of...

HRM Issues

and that the owners do not care about them. In return the behaviour patters are changing, the staff are not as attentive to the cu...

Ukraine - Orange Revolution And After

they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnyc...

Duodenal Ulcer And Gastric Cancer

p. 920). However, it is noted that people could have this very bacterium living in their GI tract and never get an ulcer (NLM/NIH...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Cause and Effect Used to Justify More Helicopter Services to a Pacific Island Prone to Natural Disasters

days, whereas for a flood or tsunami their may not be a warning at all. The immediate effects of a disaster can be mixed. If there...

Research Study Proposal/Hand washing

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

Reading Disabilities

regarding a definition of RD that is widely acceptable (Siegel and Smythe, 2005). Researchers have not been able to agree on defi...

Social Withdrawal in the Child and Adolescent

coveted brand of tennis shoes or jeans, having the "right" clothes can be perceived as tremendously important. Those teens that f...

Against Gay Marriage

no difference whatsoever" (Dowd, 2007, p. 36). Hillary Rodham Clinton was opposed to gay marriage but now considers herself "evolv...

What Global Warming Is and What We Can Do About It

more than doubled over the past decade" ("What is Global Warming?"). In addition, approximately "279 species of plants and animals...

The Great Depression

causes people to sell off more stock than they ordinarily would have. It also seems to be true that "the negative effect of stock ...

Thomas Paine/Birth of a Nation

this debate and "will be more or less affected to the end of time by the proceedings" that are now being decided (Paine 456). Pa...

Alcohol Use of Polices Among the Indigenous Population in Australia

(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...

School Shootings

effects of sensational and exploitive news coverage of traumatized victims and terrified parents, these shootings deserve our atte...

Ovarian Cancer/An Overview

: The precise causes of ovarian cancer remain unknown, but some researchers believe that it has to do with the processes of tissue...

Syphilis

it to other men (CDC, 2004). The amount of men who have the disease appears to be 3.5 times higher than women (CDC, 2004)....